mossup

Recently I was tasked with adding some CMS style functionality to a customers site. Rather than reinvent the wheel by doing my own pattern matching etc, I decided to use some markdown to do the hard work. I naively thought that it would be easier to implement because the markdown library would take care of key security concerns. Little did I realise...

Watching videos about putting ASP.NET websites together, it always looks really nice and straight forward, it demos really well. Back at the office, faced with some real world requirements things never seem that simple. To this end I decided to try to setup the Identity framework from scratch on an existing web application.

Oftentimes we will have the need to call into an API to load resources. HttpClient class provides in the System.Net namespace provides all the required functionality to interact with an API in the usual ways.

I seem to burn far to many hours trying to do the relatively simple task of setting up log4net on a project. Well step one is easy enough, install through nuget . Next...

At work we have started moving towards a standard .NET application architecture for most of our apps.  This uses MVC 5 website with a REST client talking to a Web API 5. When you open a visual studio solution, as a minimum you see the following projects...